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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, sir, Good afternoon. How you guys doing. I

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Speaker 1: am doing okay. I did a poor job. I thought

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Speaker 1: since we got you last week with the bye week,

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure you can know as a lazy journalist.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I'm gonna ask you is about Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 1: But I am curious, how do you monitor his progress

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Speaker 1: this day, we would like him to be here, At

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Speaker 1: this day, we would like him to be there, Like

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Speaker 1: how how does the week go for y'all and Dak? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they have certain uh, certain bars they're trying to reach

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Speaker 1: as they work through their rehab on his calf. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we think we have the best in the

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Speaker 1: business and Britt Brown and in terms of how he

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Speaker 1: next step playing the football game. So I know, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season. We see this all the time, Steven.

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Speaker 1: If a team has a spot locked up and a

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. I know you have nothing locked up now,

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Speaker 1: but you have a really nice lead in your division.

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Speaker 1: Would you ever go, hey, if we sit him out,

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Speaker 1: if we sit out this player, Let's just take Dak

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Speaker 1: the risk of putting him out there isn't worth the

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Speaker 1: reward right now. Let's just make sure he's healthy for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Well, I don't necessarily know

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Speaker 1: I think it's more just the full body of work.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, there's knowing that we've got a long

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Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the day, we've

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Speaker 1: We all know how driven he is to compete, how

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Speaker 1: and so we've got to calibrate that too, because no

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Speaker 1: evaluate all that. But we're still very optimistic. King play

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Speaker 1: all right, Stevens. So now I have a question way

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Speaker 1: You know, that's a good question. I don't necessarily keep

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of experience with a lot of

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Speaker 1: You know all those things have been being looked at

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Speaker 1: able to stop the juggernaut that is Georgia this year? Well,

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Speaker 1: of Cowboys vikings right here on the fan will trick

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Speaker 1: this Halloween trick or treating situation with the Cowboys playing

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Speaker 1: in the Sunday night spot. Well, that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: good question. Hopefully they'll get that trick or treating done

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Speaker 1: majority of the Cowboys vikings. Do know, obviously Halloween's a

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Speaker 1: special time for families with young with young kids, and

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Speaker 1: uh certainly we all know our kids and our family

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Speaker 1: six days until that game on Sunday night. You look

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Speaker 1: at Justin Jefferson, Dalvin Cook. I know Adam Thielan's been

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns. I know, out of those three guys, which

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Speaker 1: I think all of them, man, That's what makes them

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Speaker 1: that can get the ball to the players you're talking about,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they just got a Certainly, Jefferson

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Speaker 1: I certainly picked CD ahead of him, but he's obviously

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Speaker 1: a great young receiver, and Dovin coachs a great running back.

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Speaker 1: And you know when you got as we so well

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Speaker 1: a big challenge as we go up to play the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: And then of course we'd all know Mike Zimmer so well,

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Speaker 1: a great game plan, and we'll have our challenges there

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Speaker 1: as well. And coming off of the buy, so kind

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Speaker 1: of I know the numbers don't quite line up starting

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Speaker 1: going against a quality opponent. How important is this game

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Speaker 1: we all think the second half Cowboys team will be. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think we've got to continue to improve. That's the

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Speaker 1: big thing. And we all know each and every game

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Speaker 1: part of what makes the NFL great is there's you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't take a week off and just say, you know,

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Speaker 1: we can afford to give this game away or that

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Speaker 1: game away. Every game so major, And I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of momentum going, but we also

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Speaker 1: got a lot of places we can improve. As you said,

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Speaker 1: we're getting We're gonna start getting players back that I

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Speaker 1: certainly I know that's Mike's goal this week is to

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Speaker 1: get everybody refocused and back in on playing the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: I know they've got a breather and hopefully their legs

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Speaker 1: you said, we've got a big, big challenge going up

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Speaker 1: to play Minnesota. Well, we appreciate your injury breakdown, your

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Speaker 1: breakdown of the Vikings, and then if you can just

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Speaker 1: finally give us your breakdown of what your favorite Halloween

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Speaker 1: candy is, we would they appreciate that. Well. The Recey's

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Speaker 1: Peanut Peanut buttercups always at the top of my list,

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Speaker 1: They've been a big favorite of mine, and especially if

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Speaker 1: I get a few extra, I put them in the

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Speaker 1: freezer and that makes them better. Oh, look at that

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Speaker 1: advice across the board. Thank you very much, Stephen. We

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Speaker 1: will catch up with you again next week, sir. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you